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Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing? theguardian.com/environment/…

Trees and land absorbed almost no CO2 last year. Is nature’s carbon sink failing?

The sudden collapse of carbon sinks was not factored into climate models – and could rapidly accelerate global heating

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This hidden Icelandic carbon plant could help win the war on climate change sciencefocus.com/future-tech…

This hidden Icelandic carbon plant could help win the war on climate change | BBC Science Focus...

A huge new carbon capture facility has opened in Iceland. But will this technology help reduce the amount of carbon in our atmosphere?

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Grinding up the vast amounts of waste concrete around the world and spreading it on fields could remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. newscientist.com/article/242…

Dusting farms with waste concrete could boost yields and lock up CO2

Ground-up concrete can remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a similar way to ground-up rocks, according to a field study in Ireland

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DOE Announces $42 Million for Inertial Fusion Hubs energy.gov/articles/doe-anno…

DOE Announces $42 Million for Inertial Fusion Energy Hubs

Funding Supports Three Hubs to Build on DOE’s Groundbreaking Work in Fusion, Including Last Year’s Successful Ignition

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nature.com/articles/d41586-0…

US nuclear-fusion lab enters new era: achieving ‘ignition’ over and over

Nature - Researchers at the National Ignition Facility are consistently creating reactions that make more energy than they consume.

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Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy futurism.com/the-byte/compan…

Company Builds Facility That Lifts and Lowers 24-Ton Bricks to Store Energy

Switzerland-based startup Energy Vault has broken ground on two huge gravity battery facilities in Texas and just north of Shanghai, China, CNET reports.

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Biden proposes stricter limits on toxic wastewater from coal plants @CNBC cnbc.com/2023/03/08/biden-pr…

Biden proposes stricter limits on toxic wastewater from coal plants

The proposal comes after the Trump administration weakened regulations that required coal plants to treat polluted wastewater with modern filtration methods.

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Uncle Sam Wants You To Recycle The Dead Cellphones And Laptops In Your Junk Drawer forbes.com/sites/jeffmcmahon…
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Why Hoarding Electronics Is So Bad for the Environment | Time time.com/6223653/electronic-…

The Climate Impact of Your Electronics Junk Drawer

We're terrible at disposing of broken and obsolete electronics. Those hoarding habits are worsening climate damage.

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Whitest paint in world created at Purdue, may help curb global warming usatoday.com/story/news/nati…

Scientists created the world's whitest paint. It could eliminate the need for air conditioning.

The world's whitest paint has been created in a lab at Purdue, a paint so white that it could eventually reduce the need for air conditioning.

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World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland | Carbon capture and storage (CCS) | The Guardian theguardian.com/environment/…

World’s biggest machine capturing carbon from air turned on in Iceland

Operators say the Orca plant can suck 4,000 tonnes of CO2 out of the air every year and inject it deep into the ground to be mineralised

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Massive Attack Reveal Plan To Reduce Emissions Across Music Industry udiscovermusic.com/news/mass…

Massive Attack Reveal Plan To Reduce Carbon Emissions Across Music Industry

Massive Attack have revealed a wide-ranging and expansive plan to reduce carbon emissions across the music industry to help offset climate change.

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Climeworks is opening the world's biggest carbon removal machine — Quartz qz.com/2055951/climeworks-is…

The world’s biggest carbon-sucking machine is switching on in Iceland

We have to start removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere to have any chance of averting the worst impacts of global warming, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change said last month.

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Massive new housing community will have no carbon footprint, developer says @CNBC cnbc.com/2021/06/09/massive-…

This new community will have 21,000 homes – and net zero carbon emissions, developer says

More than 21,000 homes are going up in a new community that its developer says will be the largest net-zero development in the nation.

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Tesla, Other EV Shares Rise, as Biden Offers $174 Billion in Aid

Tesla, Workhorse and others could benefit from the plan. Biden seeks to prevent China from dominating the EV industry.

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Bill Gates: Forget the climate policy tweaks and go for the big stuff politi.co/3dfpkzb via @politico
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cnbc.com/2021/01/22/elon-mus…

Elon Musk says he will donate $100 million to whoever invents the best carbon capture technology

Tesla CEO Elon Musk has announced that he is donating $100 million towards a prize for the best technology that can capture carbon dioxide.

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What do you think? treehugger.com/prince-charle…

Prince Charles Presents the Terra Carta, a Charter for Planet Earth

The Terra Carta is a document presented by Prince Charles that urges leaders and companies toward more environmentally-responsible business practices.

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How is the industry looking today? washingtonpost.com/lifestyle…

Prefab houses were once the ‘holy grail of design.’ So why aren’t there more of them?

Architects, environmentalists and some forward-thinking builders embrace the construction method as the way every home should be built in the future. But modular homes are still a rarity.

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